Introducing Steemwhale.io - Donate some steem to a life sized (18 meter / 60 feet) fake whale and get her spouting just for you!

I've been working on this for quite a while. A fun project for a good cause.

What it is?

A life-sized (60 feet) sperm whale on the Steem blockchain. The whale sprays at random intervals, but through SteemWhale.io you can donate some Steem (virtual currency from the Steem blockchain) and get an instant spray as a reward. It is fascinating to donate crypto and only seconds later see a 350 liter water burst shoot up to 8 meters in the sky, all visible on the livestream (20 seconds delay!).

Note that the SteemWhale operates in CE(S)T Central European Timezone and switches off after 9:30 PM. Don't worry, should you not get a spout, you will get your donation returned.

Backstory

When the other day my father in law asked me if I could code the natural randomness interface of a whalefountain to be deployed in the harbour of Harlingen, a city in the North of the Netherlands, I was instantly very enthusiastic!

The nice thing about this "side-project" is that it connects the digital life with the real world life. That, and then the Steem blockchain on top! Also I thought it would be funny to hookup "a Whale" to the "blockchain", as many of you know a "whale" in cryptoterms is a bagholder / rich coin person.

The SteemWhale runs on our very Steem blockchain... As you know the Steem blockchain has a very fast block production (3 seconds) so when you donate some Steem or SBD you will see near instant fountain spray burst! The livestream on https://steemwhale.io has about 20 seconds of delay though... so keep that in mind.

The whale is planned to be at least for 10 years swimming in the harbour :) It is operational every day (unless spring / storm tide) in daytime in Central European Timezone.

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😬😂 Thanks for your kind words, Zachary! I hope so but I don’t know how many of those in poverty can reach internet though, plus the censorship, a lot of problems there. But you inspire me to do a grand China (or grand Silk Road) trip one day, reaching some remote places I hope.

ha thats a nice suggestion. I've however outsourced the livestream but will talk with the guy to see if that is possible. He mentioned something about *.srt live subtitle files which can be injected into the player.

it was so fun :) i did it today , i had a delay about 36 Sec because she was busy .someone was doing to spray at the same time :D
it's a nice project and very interesting how it works ! what human being want? achieve his/her goal so fast and see the result , and that 20 sec is a perfect time

Thanks for making this @roelandp it can bring more user in the steem blockchain because of this. This quite a fun project I must say. Hope you can add more features in the upcoming future like for example somebody will ask a question and the whale will answer by spouting. I.e I will ask if my girlfriend will say yes if I ask her for a wedding then the whale can answer yes or no. That way it is more fun in my opinion. Good luck

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hey Cryptoeater. I have not giving this a thought. But I received this suggestion before I think elsewhere in these comments. So maybe we should do that on New Years Day or something. Instead of shooting up fireworks in the sky you can have SteemWhale spray for you and then the donations will be sent to @null :)

Something like that could work! I was thinking something like 5% of all donations automatically sent to @null. Another cool feature could be a leaderboard, name it something like "The Whale Whales"! It could be a list of all contributors, ranked in descending order for "total contributions"!

Thx luke. good one. So why I haven't stated an actual 'cause' yet is because internally we are dabbling which one to donate to. But no there is no tax receipts etc :P it's more like tipping and all proceeds go to a good cause.

Thx Matthew! I will consider lowering the amount but currently we might even raise it :) because of the popularity. So I am currently 100 KM's away from the fountain, but the guys who are still in the harbour and didn't know about me launching this said: "Wow the whale has gone mad, it has been spraying about 20 times per hour" :P

So will not raise the amount, but for now definitely not lower it.

You see, after every spray it needs to refill the tank and build up new airpressure. This takes about 2,5 minutes...

Very good idea for the small investor to make there growth through big whales of steemit .Give some steem/S B D to these Big whales ,they will take you, in to the Bathing TUB of STEEMIT, where U will fell happy & healty

hi @roelandp,
I will only talk about the funny part of this project even if I also appreciate the idea and the technical part.
I dont have any screenshot since I laught so hard when it happened but I made some try and managed to get some people wet, which was really fun...but I noticed that they was mad and threw some stones on our whales!! So you may have to take care with that :)

@roelandp Great job with the implementation, I think it will give a lot of much needed publicity to Steemit Platform, If we have more things like this across the globe it will be a conversation starter and help spread a word about SteemIT.

Think I read about that already earlier - nice one - The Next Web covering is awesome - I know some guys there. Well done @roelandp - when the Dutch are not playing world Cup they become crazy creative :-).

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What an insanely unique project. And such a great way to get Steem in front of new people. This is awesome. Can I ask that you be a bit more clear with how the funds will be used? Maintenance costs are there but which ocean preservation cause will you support?

I was a bit vague out there as we have currently not decided which one to go with (we have been working with several people on this project and all have a say :D - there are several ideas of foundations to support - both local and global).

What we have agreed upon 10% of the proceeds (with a cap of 50 USD / month max - no minimum) going to the livestream (it is outsourced).

Internally we are still discussing which one to give donations to. Rest assured you will be notified through @whalefountain once we make the donation.

I was watching it pretty attentively in the middle of the night to stay awake and I can tell you when those people with the dogs walked by and it squirted and they didn't even stop I was very disappointed. It's a great affront when someone doesn't stop for the squirt.

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and did it work? Whale operates from 09:30 to 21:30 - you would get your donation back if outside operating hours or an other error occurs. - See https://steemwhale.io for local time in Harlingen Harbour and whether the whale is sleeping (it would be obvious from the livestream and also would have some ZZZ in the screen).

Wow! What an idea! You're great!
What would happen if the water appeared from a special deep well in places where there is drought? Then people from all over the world could really help others in need!

When the other day my father in law asked me if I could code the natural randomness interface of a whalefountain to be deployed in the harbour of Harlingen, a city in the North of the Netherlands, I was instantly very enthusiastic!